A new Oxfam report today warns that recent gains in the fight against poverty will be reversed if world leaders raid existing aid budgets to find the funds to help poor countries fight the growing impact of climate change.
As you may have noticed things have changed a little around here! The Oxfam Australia website has been completely redeveloped and what you’re seeing now is the end result.
An Oxfam Emergency Response Team is in place in Indonesia to provide assistance following a 7.0 magnitude earthquake which struck off the coast of Java yesterday.
International aid agency Oxfam is urging Australians to consider more than their own Dad this Father’s Day, with a Fair Trade gift.
The addition of Beth Cardelli to the team of Dave Gallagher, Shaun Atchison and Noel Annett has proved a winning combination for the Berowra Bushrunners who are the first of the 500 teams to finish the 100km Oxfam Trailwalker Sydney.
Oxfam Global Ambassador and Hollywood actor Gael Garcia Bernal stars in a new online advertisement made by international aid agency Oxfam urging people to join the new "tck tck tck" climate change campaign.
Learn about the power of online campaigning at special Oxfam events, A Climate for Change - Make Waves Beyond Our Island, on Monday 31 October in Hobart, and Thursday 3 September in Launceston.
Tomorrow 2000 people will attempt to walk the combined equivalent of five times around the world to raise around $3 million for international aid agency Oxfam Australia.
MEDIA ALERT: Oxfam TRAILWALKER Sydney, August 28 - 30
Today marks six years since the bombing of the UN office in Baghdad. The casualties from that blast included the top UN official in Iraq Sérgio Vieira de Mello and other UN staff working to help Iraqi civilians in the middle of war. The UN has designated today the inaugural World Humanitarian Day, to honour aid workers and the jobs they do in difficult and dangerous environments.